This Is Hardcore Fest 2012 will take place August 9-12 in Philadelphia, PA. Bands include Gorilla Biscuits, Lifetime, Cro-Mags, H2O, Terror, Earth Crisis, Blacklisted, Title Fight, Bane and tons more. The full line-up can be found in the replies.

Rob and I will be doing a special two day interview with Lifetime in the near future. Have you ever had some question you've been dying to ask them, while sitting in your bedroom in 2001? What about some old fans that want to bring up old stories from the basement shows? This is your chance. Leave any questions you may have in the replies.

Below is an update from Lifetime. The band's long-awaited, much-anticipated, new, self-titled album hits shelves today!

Update

So I just got home after a 13-hour workday and a late-night Paint It Black practice. I'm pretty sick after hanging out with my 2-year-old nephew last weekend (he had bronchitis or something, but it was worth getting sick just to spend time with him, I adore that kid). I feel like hell, but as I sat down to eat some sad excuse for a dinner and check my email, I realized that it's Tuesday, February 6th, and our new fucking record comes out today! We've been waiting so long, and I'm so impatient that I've had to put it out of my head almost entirely for the past...

Guitarist Dan Yemin of Lifetime has posted a Myspace bulletin, which you can read below.

Lifetime Bulletin

Hey everybody. I'm getting really excited and really nervous all at once. We have a new album coming out in two weeks. We wrote the songs in 6 months, as opposed to the two years it took to write "Jersey's Best Dancers". We recorded the album in three weeks, as opposed to the three days it took to record "Hello Bastards". As you can see, some things are different, and some things are the same. I feel like the music, and relationships between the five of us that fuel that music, have remained much the same, but hopefully have matured too. Same old super-fast hardcore pop songs. Same...

Lifetime will be playing two record release shows in Asbury Park and Philadelphia with The Explosion and labelmates The A.K.A.s. Check Lifetimenj.com for more information on all the upcoming and look for their new 7" Two Songs in stores November 21st.